§ 130-10. Powers and duties of Building Official.

A. 

The Building Official shall be charged with the duty of administrating the applicable standards of this chapter.

B. 

It shall be the duty of the Building Official:

(1) 

To inspect and to cause inspection to be made of commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises within the scope of the applicable standards, as necessary.

(a) 

Inspectors shall be authorized and have the right, in performance of their duties, to enter any commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises for purposes of inspection or any other reason necessary to administer or secure compliance with this chapter.

(b) 

Owners, agents, operators, occupants and tenants shall be responsible for providing access to all parts of the commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises within their control to inspectors acting in performance of their duties.

(2) 

To investigate and to cause an investigation of all complaints of alleged violations of this chapter. The Building Official shall keep records of all complaints received, inspections made and violations found regarding commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises regulated by this chapter. Records shall be kept and shall be available for public inspection.

(3) 

To issue notices of abatement under this chapter.

(4) 

To issue notices of violation of this chapter and to order, in writing, the remedy of all conditions found to exist in or on any commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises and accessory structure thereon in violation of the provisions of this chapter and to state in the notice of violation a thirty-day limit for compliance, except in an emergency where conditions render the commercial, residential, and mixed-occupancy premises unsafe for occupancy and/or unsafe to adjoining properties and/or the general public, in which event there shall be a forty-eight-hour limit for compliance therewith and, where necessary, to order the vacating of the premises found unfit for occupancy.

Amended 3-18-2003 by Ord. No. 63-2003; 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 80-2007